Protecting the ship
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Seeing that I was on light anti-craft, light anti-aircraft guns
that we took our training on and when we went over on the ship
they put us on duty on the guns to protect them from the air.
And the anti-aircraft, while we were trained in Halifax on the 40
40 mm Bofors, (ack-ack guns), and on the ship they gave us,
I think they were 20 calibers, the machine guns.
They strap you in and that’s where you stayed until you got
relieved. The only thing I remember is one night we had a sort
of a raid with the German aircraft coming down on the ships,
but they didn’t get to close to ours but mostly on the convoy
they generally have those balloons up in the air. I forgot what
they call them. Barrage balloons, that’s what they are, yeah.
And so the aircraft didn’t come too low, but they were up pretty
high. But that would last maybe a couple hours and that was it.
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